Table 2.
Clinical stroke severity, thrombolysis times, and thrombectomy data.
| Intravenous r-tPA (n = 82) |
IA Thrombectomy (n = 31) |
P value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| NIHSS score* (median-IQR) | |||
| Admission | 16 (13.5–21) | 19 (17–24) | 0.011 |
| OCSP classification§, n (%) | 0.003 | ||
| TACS | 46 (56.1) | 24 (77.4) | |
| PACS | 31 (37.8) | 2 (6.5) | |
| POCS | 5 (6.1) | 5 (16.1) | |
| TOAST classification# | |||
| CE | 39 (47.6) | 14 (45.2) | 0.141 |
| LAA | 21 (25.6) | 13 (41.9) | |
| UND | 22 (26.8) | 4 (12.9) | |
| ASPECTS† (median-IQR) | 10 (2) | 10 (1) | 0.171 |
| Procedure times (minutes/median-IQR) | |||
| Symptom-door | 77 (78) | 75 (84) | 0.779 |
| Symptom-needle | 170 (80) | 178 (101.5) | 0.550 |
| Symptom to groin puncture | . | 217 (135–255) | . |
| Groin revascularization | . | 38 (26–50) | . |
| Vessel occlusions | |||
| Cervical ICA | . | 11 (35) | . |
| Terminus ICA | . | 2 (6) | . |
| M1 | . | 13 (39) | . |
| M2 | . | 0 (0) | . |
| Basilar | . | 5 (16) | . |
| Reperfusion proportion | . | 27 (87) | |
| Final mTICI grade§ | |||
| 0 | . | 4 | . |
| 1 | . | 1 | . |
| 2 A | . | 4 | . |
| 2B | . | 8 | . |
| 3 | . | 14 | . |
| Symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage | 10 (12.2) | 3 (9.7) | 1.000 |
Thrombolysis times median (IQR: interquartile range), or n (%); ⁎ NIHSS: National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale; §OCSP: Oxfordshire Community Stroke Project classification. TACI: total anterior circulation syndrome; PACI: partial anterior circulation syndrome; POCI: posterior circulation infarction; # TOAST classification: SAO: small artery occlusion; LAA: large artery atherosclerosis; CE: cardioembolic. †ASPECTS: Alberta Stroke Program Early CT Score; ICA: internal carotid artery; M1/2: middle cerebral artery; mTICI grade: modified Thrombolysis in Cerebral Infarction score.